Page 8 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • November 2, 2011 Area Registered voters in Allendale, Ho-HoKus, and Saddle River will be asked to endorse the candidates for local mayor and council seats in those municipalities, where no challengers have filed for the Nov. 8 general election. Allendale Incumbent Allendale Councilwoman Amy Wilczynski and Allendale Planning Board Member Jacqueline McSwiggan are the uncontested Republican council candidates this year. Wilczynski owns and operates an ornamental gardening company with an emphasis on the environment. She is seeking election to a second term. She is the council’s resident expert on trees and other environmental matters and has been an active proponent of the revitalization of Crestwood Lake. McSwiggan, a retired executive at the Bank of New York, is president of the Allendale Municipal Alliance, a group that strives to prevent drug and alcohol abuse. She is a former member of the Allendale K8 Board of Education. McSwiggan is running for the seat that was long held by Robert Schoepflin. Schoepflin opted not to seek re-election this year after breaking most records for length Candidates run unchallenged in three local elections of service on a council. He has four college degrees, including one graduate degree from Harvard, and was an executive in several major corporations before his retirement. Ho-Ho-Kus Incumbent Ho-Ho-Kus Mayor Thomas Randall will run unchallenged for his seat in this year’s general election, as will incumbent Councilwoman Maryellen Lennon and council candidate Steve Shell, a newcomer. The mayor and council candidates are all members of the Republican party. Kimberly Weiss, the incumbent Republican councilwoman who was sworn in to Council President Kevin Crossley’s seat following his move out of town this summer, will also appear on the ballot. Weiss, who is seeking election to Crossley’s one-year unexpired term, is also running without opposition. Randall, a practicing attorney with Randall & Randall, was last elected in 2007. Before he became mayor, he spent 13 years as a member of the borough council. A graduate of Notre Dame University and Seton Hall Law School, Randall has served as council president, police commissioner, DPW commissioner, deputy finance commissioner, and council liaison to the zoning board. The candidate’s community activities have included coaching recreation baseball and soccer and the traveling basketball team. He has also been active with the Bergen County Scouts, the Northwest Bergen Chapter of the American Heart Association, and the Northeast Republican Organization. Lennon, a 33-year borough resident, will be seeking reelection to a new threeyear term on the borough’s governing body. She is a graduate of Saint Joseph’s College and was an elementary school teacher. The councilwoman’s activities have included troop leader for Girl Scouts, YAC Dance co-chair, and Red Cross Babysitting Course and St. Gabriel’s CCD instructor. She has run a nursery program in town for preschoolers, and served as a substitute teacher in several local districts. Lennon was elected to her first term in 2005. Shell and his wife Elizabeth have been residents of Ho-Ho-Kus since 1995, having moved to the borough from New York City. Their three daughters are being educated at the Ho-Ho-Kus/Waldwick Nursery School, the Ho-Ho-Kus Public School, and Northern Highlands Regional High School. After receiving his bachelor’s degree, he began a 28-year career in sales, marketing, and management with Stauffer Chemicals, Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising, American Cyanamid, and Pfizer. He is currently vice president and general manager in the U.S. Animal Health Division of Merck & Co., where he is responsible for the management of three business units and a staff of more than 250 colleagues. Weiss is a 14-year resident of Ho-HoKus. She has served over six years as a member of the Republican County Committee and has been involved as a board member of both the Youth Activities Council and the Ho-Ho-Kus Contemporary Club. Her community involvement has included service as a Girl Scout leader and membership in the Valley Hospital Auxiliary. Weiss grew up in Stowe, Vermont and earned her bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College. She worked for The Travelers in Hartford, Connecticut as an underwriter and as director of property-casualty sales for Travelers Mortgage Service. She is currently co-owner of a retail yarn store in Wyckoff. She previously lived in Denver, Colorado and in Seattle, Washington, where she served on a local homeowners’ board. The councilwoman and her husband, who is chairman of the Ho-Ho-Kus Recreation Committee, have two college-age daughters. Saddle River Saddle River Mayor Samuel Raia and Councilmen Michael Mutter and Michael Toomey, all of whom are Republicans, will be running unopposed in the Nov. 8 general election. Raia is running for a second term as the borough’s mayor. Before being elected to the borough’s top post in 2007, Raia spent two terms as a councilman and served as a member of the planning board. During his first term on the council, he spearheaded the reorganization of the police department and the creation of the borough’s 24-hour police station and dispatch facility. He also headed the approval and development of the fire department’s public safety water lines and the Rindlaub Park improvement program. A long-time borough resident, Raia has spent over three decades as a corporate manager. He helped make Raia Industries the state’s largest concrete supplier. He later sold that business and developed Raia Properties and Raia Self Storage. Councilman Mutter received a bachelor’s degree from Saint John’s University, College of Pharmacy and a master’s from New Jersey Institute of Technology. He received a Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship AHA/HRET. He is pharmacy manager and director of patient safety at The Valley Hospital. He is a member of the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists and of the New Jersey Hospital Association. Toomey holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, and logged over 40 years as a sales and marketing executive in the computer hardware, software, and service business. He now runs his own small business in semi-retirement.